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Francis de Groot, the Glossary

Francis Edward de Groot (24 October 1888 – 1 April 1969) was an Irish-Australian soldier and furniture maker.^[1]

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15th The King's Hussars officers
Antiques dealers
Australian fascists
Australian furniture designers
Australian furniture makers
Australian nationalists
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Adam style

The Adam style (also called Adamesque or the Style of the Brothers Adam) is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728–1792) and James (1732–1794) were the most widely known.

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Angus & Robertson

Angus & Robertson (A&R) is a major Australian bookseller, publisher and printer.

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Australian home front during World War II

Although most Australian civilians lived far from the front line, the Australian home front during World War II played a significant role in the Allied victory and led to permanent changes to Australian society.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Battle of Passchendaele

The Third Battle of Ypres (Dritte Flandernschlacht; Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.

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Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.

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Belvedere College

Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a fee-paying voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland.

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Blackrock College

Blackrock College (Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe) is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland.

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BridgeClimb Sydney

BridgeClimb Sydney is an Australian tourist attraction located in Sydney, New South Wales.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Castlereagh Street

Castlereagh Street is a major street located in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.

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Commonwealth Police

The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979.

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County Wicklow

County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county in Ireland.

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David Jones (retailer)

David Jones Pty Ltd, trading as David Jones (colloquially DJs), is an Australian luxury department store.

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Donnybrook, Dublin

Donnybrook is a district of Dublin, Ireland, on the southside of the city, in the Dublin 4 postal district.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Eadith Walker

Dame Eadith Campbell Walker (18 September 1861 - 8 October 1937) was an Australian heiress and philanthropist.

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Ebenezer Vickery

Ebenezer Vickery (1 March 1827 – 20 August 1906) was an Australian businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist.

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Eric Campbell (political activist)

Eric Campbell, (11 April 1893 – 2 September 1970) was an Australian army officer and later a solicitor who was the leader of the far-right organisation, the New Guard in New South Wales. Francis de Groot and Eric Campbell (political activist) are Australian fascists and Australian nationalists.

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Far-right politics in Australia

Far-right politics in Australia describes authoritarian ideologies, including fascism and White supremacy as they manifest in Australia.

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Flindersia brayleyana

Flindersia brayleyana, commonly known as Queensland maple, maple silkwood or red beech, is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to northern Queensland.

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Frederick Wymark

Frederick Victor Grey Wymark (6 October 1872 – 19 October 1942) was an Australian Australiana collector, book collector and bookseller.

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George Robertson (publisher)

George Robertson (14 April 186027 August 1933) was an English-born Australian bookseller and publisher, who alongside partner and Scotsman David Angus co-founded the publishing division of Angus & Robertson.

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Government House, Canberra

Government House, colloquially known as Yarralumla, is the official residence of the governor-general of Australia.

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Governor of New South Wales

The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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Hordern family

The Hordern family is an Australian retailing dynasty.

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Hubert Primrose

Hubert Leslie Primrose (14 November 1882 – 26 November 1942) was an Australian politician. Francis de Groot and Hubert Primrose are Australian fascists and Australian nationalists.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Irish Industrial Exhibition

The Irish Industrial Exhibition was a world's fair held in Cork in 1852, the first to be held in Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom).

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Isaac Isaacs

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936.

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Jack Lang (Australian politician)

John Thomas Lang (21 December 1876 – 27 September 1975), usually referred to as J. T. Lang during his career and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella", was an Australian politician, mainly for the New South Wales Branch of the Labor Party.

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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)

The British Merchant Navy is the collective name given to British civilian ships and their associated crews, including officers and ratings.

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National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia (NMA), in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation.

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New Guard

The New Guard was an Australian fascist paramilitary organisation during the Great Depression.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Philip Game

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, (30 March 1876 – 4 February 1961) was a Royal Air Force commander, who later served as Governor of New South Wales and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (London).

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Phillip Street

Phillip Street is a street in the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

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Pymble, New South Wales

Pymble is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Rushcutters Bay

Rushcutters Bay is a harbourside inner-east suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.

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S. H. Ervin

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South Irish Horse

The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Spanish flu

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore.

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The Australia Hotel

The Australia Hotel was a hotel on Castlereagh Street, Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

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The Home

The Home was a high-quality Australian magazine published in Sydney, New South Wales, between 1920 and 1942.

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The Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW

The Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW is a guild of artists in New South Wales, Australia established in 1906.

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Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale (June 1718 – 1779) was an English cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles.

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Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart

Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart (20 June 1856 – 29 February 1920) was a Scottish-born professor of physiology, founder of the medical school at the University of Sydney.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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War Office

The War Office has referred to several British government organisations in history, all relating to the army.

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Waterford Crystal

Waterford Crystal is a manufacturer of lead glass or "crystal", especially in cut glass, named after the city of Waterford, Ireland.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War.

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William and Mary style

What later came to be known as the William and Mary style is a furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 in the Netherlands, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, and later in England's American colonies.

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William Dixson

Sir William Dixson (18 April 1870 – 17 August 1952) was an Australian businessman, collector and benefactor who bequeathed his collection of over 20,000 items of Australiana to the State Library of New South Wales, forming the Dixson Library.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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15th The King's Hussars

The 15th The King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army.

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5th Dragoon Guards

The 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards was a British army cavalry regiment, officially raised in January 1686 as Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse or the Earl of Shrewsbury's Horse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Groot

Also known as Francis Edward de Groot, Frank de Groot.

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15th The King's Hussars officers

Antiques dealers

Australian fascists

Australian furniture designers

Australian furniture makers

Australian nationalists

Irish people of Dutch descent

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